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Explosion Destroys Cottage Business
A FISHING AND DIVING REPAIR SHOP IN SHELTON, WASHINGTON, blew up and burned out early Friday morning. The Puget Sound waterfront shop located behind the owner's house exploded with a force that was heard 1-½ miles away around 4:30 am. The residents/…
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Air Ambulance Burns Up
A RESCUE-MEDIC HELICOPTER BASED IN STUTTGART, GERMANY, caught fire in its hanger Friday morning and was virtually destroyed within minutes.
Stuttgart Police photo
The flight medic was doing his routine morning check of the equipment around 7:40 am when…
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Morning Lineup – May 23
Somebody asked me the other day what I thought about these new barricade-style paint jobs that they're putting on the rear of firetrucks and ambulances now.
I'll answer that by backing up a few decades and reviewing what happened starting around 1970 o…
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UPDATED Quick takes
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8RGcA61ww&hl=en&fs=1] UPDATED - Must see video of another close call (full version): Yes, those are legs behind that sig…
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Must see video of another very close call: Camera captures wall collapsing on San Francisco firefighter. Pot growing may have sparked fire.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82tbAGnTjSs&hl=en&fs=1]UPDATED: The video above is now the complete 5:07 version showing more of what happens after the co…
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Clean EMS – Lifesaving practices in Ambulance Cleaning
Here is a shocking statistic: According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nosocomial Infections (or Healthcare Associated Infections – "HAIs") defined as "… infections which are a result of treatment in a hospital …
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Four-alarm fire in Houston guts large furniture warehouse. Raw video, details and a before shot from the Gallery Furniture fire.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-G-tCU7dP8&hl=en&fs=1]Live reports from the scene begin at about 7:25 into the video above.KTRK-TV helicopter videoKTRK-T…
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Two-alarm fire destroys car wash in Leesburg, Virginia. Video, pictures and details from the fire.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhh6uwoV178&hl=en&fs=1]Read detailed account from Leesburg VFCPictures from the Loudoun IndependentFire yesterday evening …
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Non-Stop Arson Onslaught
IN A CONCERTED EFFORT TO MAINTAIN their city's reputation, some of Detroit, Michigan's, citizens began Wednesday morning by setting 20 fires during the first six hours of the day.
This video report from WJBK Ch. 2 tells it all:
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Views from the beach…
Yesterday the temperature topped 85 degrees in beautiful NW Ohio. While I realize that some of you wouldn't think twice about reaching such an ungodly number in May, for us Ohioans, that's kinda warm. Think of it this way, when the mercury rises above …
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For Fellow Members of the Bacon Brigade…
... I give you the Ten Craziest Bacon-Inspired Products.You can bet that #1 on that list will be in my first aid kit forthwith.h/t to LPN With an M16.
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From the… Well *that's* not good files…
From a coworker on Yahoo tonight...
""You might not have a shift tomorrow, the truck almost caught on fire twice today."
Fantastic.
I'm without words.
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Video from Bellingham, Massachusetts house fire. Power lines blocked access to hydrant.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iwPJAcZw8o&hl=en&fs=1]This fire was last night on Stone Street in Bellingham, Massachusetts.Officials tell WBZ radio that…
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Seattle Chief Gregory Dean reprimanded and Lt. Milt Footer resigns. Read investigative reports into department's ethics issues involving Qwest Field.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com Chief Gregory Dean. Click here to watch KOMO-TV's report.Chief Dean's letter of reprimand from Mayor NickelsCity of Seattle press release Investigation of fire departmen…
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Baltimore's Chief Clack responds to questions about PIO comments on fire company closings. Read his email.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.comWatching and reading a WJZ-TV story and reading an article in The Baltimore Sun about the Baltimore City Fire Department's budget woes and the radio ad from the unions, I…
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Raw video from grocery store fire in Frederick County, Maryland. Fire at Jefferson Market was discovered just after midnight.
Click here and then scroll down for the latest fire and EMS news from STATter911.com Watch raw video of the Frederick County, MD fire from 9NEWS NOW's Kurt Brooks (or here)Pictures and more details at Jefferson Volunteer Fire/Rescue Company's websiteFire…
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Indiana Courthouse Fire
MADISON, INDIANA, ONE OF THE STATE'S OLDEST TOWNS, was witness to a tragic fire last evening when the roof and dome of the Jefferson County Courthouse burned.
WNDY-TV has some early video of the fire:
Renovations to the cupola had just been completed …
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Atten. Antique Apparatus Fans
FWNetz, THE LEADING FIRE/RESCUE BLOG IN GERMANY, has just posted a video that is entertaining. It shows a procession (or rally, certainly not a parade as we know it) of a lot of vintage fire trucks from there. Firegeezer was impressed with the high n…
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